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Sounds True Presents: The Enlightened Brain, Part 2
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Sounds True Presents: The Enlightened Brain, Part 2

Dr. Rick Hanson on the Neuroscience of Spiritual Awakening
Last updated 10/2016
English

What you'll learn

  • Deeply understand how the brain works and the impact it can have on your suffering and joy
  • Strengthen concentration and develop a helpful meditative practice
  • Learn how to create stability, inner peace, and equanimity no matter what’s going on outside of you
  • Use neuroscience’s and Buddha’s teachings to discover, understand, and support your true “self”

Course content

4 sections41 lectures5h 20m total length
  • An Introduction to Concentrating the Mind2:51
    • States of deep absorption
    • The importance of building on the fundamentals
  • What Happens in the Brain during Concentration9:28
    • What happens in your brain during concentration
    • Stable attention
    • A quiet mind
    • Singleness of mind
    • Concentrated mind
    • Five factors of concentration: applied attention, sustained attention, rapture, joy, and singleness of mind
  • Rapture5:13
    • Qualities of rapture
    • How to stimulate rapture
    • Different personality types and rapture
  • Joy and Singleness of Mind6:29
    • The different types of joy
    • The neurology of joy
    • Ways of activating joy
    • Knowing happiness, contentment, and tranquility
    • Singleness of mind
  • Guided Meditation: Steadying the Mind, Quieting the Mind39:27
  • The Common Nature of Matter and the Awakened Mind8:23
    • Matter and energy
    • Eddies in matter and mind
    • Patterns exist only in the nature of now
    • The four qualities of eddies: impermanence, interdependency, emergent, and unconditioned
    • Thoughts
    • The characteristics of enlightenment
  • What May Be Happening in the Brain during Nirvana7:19
    • The eight absorptions
    • The progressive process
    • Fertile noise
    • The bare nature of matter and mind
    • The end of suffering
  • Going Further with Concentrating the Mind5:56
    • Eddies in the stream
    • Nirvana or other forms of ultimate awakening
    • What if consciousness is woven into the nature of the universe?
  • Section 1 Study Questions0:30

Requirements

  • You don’t need any special equipment or prior experience to take this course. All you need is some time to move through the lectures and practice the meditations throughout the program.

Description

This course is taught by Dr. Rick Hanson, a pioneering neuropsychologist who has been able to teach students how to naturally change the way that their minds work.

Throughout this program, you’ll explore how you can activate processes inside your brain in order to accelerate your personal transformation.

You’ll understand how thoughts affect your brain physically, how to harness the power of positive thoughts and reverse the effects of stress and pain, and how to create a life filled with joy rather than suffering.

Learn Meditative Practices That Will Transform Your Mind and Your Life

  • Discover How to Steady and Quiet Your Mind to Allow Focus and Concentration
  • Understand the Causes of Suffering So You Can Find Joy and Peace
  • Implement Equanimity in All of Your Daily Activities
  • Uncover Your True Self and Enhance Your Life with Positivity


Use Your Brain’s Neuroplasticity to Transform Yourself in a Profound Way

This course focuses on the best of modern science and ancient Buddhist teachings to give you the tools you need to evolve your mind.

In addition to learning about how the brain works, you’ll also tackle how to take advantage of your brain’s neuroplasticity to change the way that your thoughts affect your life.

As you move through this course, you’ll encounter a variety of exercises and guided practices that will allow you to meditate in ways that will truly transform your mind for the better.

You’ll practice mindfulness, weave positive thoughts and emotions into the fabric of your brain, and strengthen your concentration and focus.

Contents and Overview
This course begins with an introduction to concentrating the mind so you can understand what happens in your brain when you focus.

You’ll then move into your first guided meditation. This exercise will help you steady and quiet the mind, before diving into what occurs in the awakened mind and nirvana.

Dr. Hanson then describes the causes of suffering so you can comprehend how your reactions and your brain can actually create unnecessary suffering.

To move beyond suffering and into a state of peace, you’ll tackle the four components of equanimity before diving into several guided exercises designed to help you focus on your personal transformation.

In order to change, you’ll need to open yourself up to a growing sense of serenity and contentment every day, so you’ll discover how to do that with a sense of equanimity as your foundation.  

The final section of this course focuses on discovering what the “self” is. Through a combination of lectures and exercises, you’ll explore what’s existent and nonexistent in your apparent self.

You’ll learn how to take life less personally and how to be a witness of your life rather than a prisoner.

By the time you complete this course, you’ll have a variety of practical tools that you can use daily to positively change your brain’s function and enhance your life in various ways.  

You’ll be able to use the best that modern science and ancient Buddhist teachings have to offer in order to release fear and negativity and create a life that’s less stressful and more joyful

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone who wishes to have a deeper understanding of how the mind works
  • Anyone who seeks to transform their mind for the better
  • Anyone interested in learning about modern neuroscience and its connection with ancient Buddhist teachings
  • Anyone who hopes to activate their brain processes and use neuroplasticity to accelerate personal transformation